My father; a compellation which might both wound Abraham's heart, and admonish him how unbecoming to a father that action was which he was going about. Here am I, my son; which expression showed that he had not put off fatherly affection to him, and that his intention did not arise from any unnatural and barbarous disposition, nor from any decay of love to him, but from a higher cause, even the declared will of God.

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